Hurricane Matthew death toll in Haiti hits 1,000

PORT-AU-PRINCE Oct 9 The number of people
killed in Haiti by Hurricane Matthew hit 1,000 people on Sunday,
as the country battled deaths from cholera and some authorities
had to start burying the dead in mass graves.

The powerful hurricane, the fiercest Caribbean storm in
nearly a decade, slammed into Haiti on Tuesday, whipping it with
140 mile-per-hour (230 kph) winds and torrential rains.

A Reuters tally of numbers from local officials showed that
1,000 people were killed by the storm in Haiti, the poorest
country in the Americas.
(Reporting by Joseph Guyler Delva; editing by Diane Craft)

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Democrats from coal states announced they would not risk a
government shutdown by continuing to delay the vote.

WASHINGTON, Dec 9 President-elect Donald Trump's
Energy Department transition team sent the agency a memo this
week asking for the names of people who have worked on climate
change and the professional society memberships of lab workers,
alarming employees and advisors.

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